[talk-au] GPS errors on a BU-353

2010-01-26 Thread dbannon
Hi Folks, in the past I have used a Garmin eTrex connected to a laptop (via a serial cable and a serial to USB adaptor). Thought life would be easier with a USB Mouse and purchased a BU-353, however, am a little surprised to see what seems a noisier signal. For example, I drove down a dirt

Re: [talk-au] Coastline rendering in Garmins Mapsource

2010-01-26 Thread John Kitchener
I'll be downloading the Oceania file from http://download.geofabrik.de/osm/australia-oceania.osm.bz2 tomorrow morning and making a new Garmin map from it. I'll report back on the status of the coastline anomaly. John H Thanks John John K

Re: [talk-au] Coastline rendering in Garmins Mapsource

2010-01-26 Thread John Henderson
I wrote: I'll be downloading the Oceania file from http://download.geofabrik.de/osm/australia-oceania.osm.bz2 tomorrow morning and making a new Garmin map from it. I'll report back on the status of the coastline anomaly. The problem still exists. My Nuvi 1350 lets me save screenshots.

[talk-au] re Coastline rendering in Garmins Mapsource

2010-01-26 Thread John Kitchener
Here's how it renders on an Oregon 300 http://img695.imageshack.us/img695/2718/oregon300.jpg Cheers John k ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [talk-au] re Coastline rendering in Garmins Mapsource

2010-01-26 Thread John Henderson
John Kitchener wrote: Here's how it renders on an Oregon 300 http://img695.imageshack.us/img695/2718/oregon300.jpg Using a different mkgmap style file and TYP file presumably to generate the gmapsupp.img file. They're highly configurable. I've started experimenting with them for the

Re: [talk-au] re Coastline rendering in Garmins Mapsource

2010-01-26 Thread John Smith
How is the garmin util converting from osm2garmin format? There is shape files which are error checkef before mapnik renders tiles... On 1/27/10, John Henderson snow...@gmx.com wrote: John Kitchener wrote: Here's how it renders on an Oregon 300